The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 37, 1669-1676: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 37, 1669-1676: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
[98] José Duque,a native of Oropesa, in the province of Toledo,
professed in the convent of San Felipe el Real in Madrid. He labored
in Gapán (1650), Candaba (1653), Pasig (1656), Sesmoan (1659, 1677),
Guagua (1661, 1671, 1681); and was definitor in 1659, prior of
Guadalupe and Cebú in 1662 and 1668 respectively, and provincial four
times (1674, 1683, 1688, and 1692). He died in 1695. He had aided in
the pacification of Pampanga in 1660. See Pérez's Catálogo, p. 117.
[99] Antonio Carrión became fluent in the Bisayan, Ilocan, and Tagálog
tongues. He labored in San Nicolás de Cebú (1645), Tigbauan (1648),
Otón(1653), Dumangas (1656), Lauag (1657), Quingua (1662), and Batác
(1665). He was prior of Santo Niño (1650), and definitor and prior
of Manila (1660), and died in Ilocos in 1665. See Pérez's Catálogo,
p. 192.
[100] Isidoro Rodríguez was born in Madrid and took the habit
in Salamanca in 1639. He ministered in Macabebe in 1653, in
Guagua in 1656, in Sesmoan in 1662, and in Bacolor in 1665. He was
commissary-procurator to Madrid and Rome in 1666, returning to Manila
in 1669, when he was appointed definitor. He died in 1671. He was a
prudent missionary and did good service in the Pampanga insurrection
of 1660. See Pérez's Catálogo, p. 119.
[101] Francisco Roa was born in Mexico October 9, 1592, and went to
Manila at the age of fourteen. He entered the Society May 18, 1609. He
worked in the Bisayan missions, and was prior of the Manila convent for
six years. During his third provincialate for the Philippine province,
he set out (January 6, 1660) to visit the missions and colleges
of Zamboanga, but met his death by shipwreck. See Sommervogel's
Bibliothèque, and Murillo Velarde's Historia, fol. 267-268 verso.
[102] José Pimentel was born at Portillo, near Valladolid, September
20, 1607. He entered upon his novitiate April 24, 1624. While still
a scholastic he went to the Philippines where he taught grammar. He
became procurator of the province and rector of Cavite, Otón, and
Antipolo, and master of novices. His death occurred as above. He left
a Tagálog dictionary and other works. See Sommervogel's Bibliothèque,
and Murillo Velarde's Historia, fol. 268 verso-269.
[103] Correctly, Lorenzo de Iba. He was born in Caller de Cerdeña, and
arrived as a lay brother in the Philippines in 1651. He was twenty-two
years in the Society, and on account of his abilities had accompanied
Miguel Solana to Macao. See Murillo Velarde's Historia, fol. 269.
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